fetchmail problem

[gboyce-qL0WqcyiFk9Wk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Gregory Boyce)]

It looks like fetchmail is trying to download the mail from the remote 
mail server and inject them into the local mailer on port 25, which is 
refusing connections.

Since its localhost port 25, its probably your MTA not running rather than 
a firewall issue.

Do you run posfix, sendmail or exim locally?  Whichever one you use, is it 
running?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, dan moylan wrote:

>
> though i'm not aware of any system changes i might have
> made, fetchmail, which fetched yesterday, does not do so
> today.
>
> i see the following:
>
>  4 messages for jdm+moylan.us at moylan.us (16100 octets).
>  fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25]
>  failed: Connection refused.
>  fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>  fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
>  jdm+moylan.us-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw at public.gmane.org and delivering to SMTP host
>  localhost
>  reading message jdm+moylan.us-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw at public.gmane.org:1 of 4 (1360
>  octets)fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
>
> ubuntu 8.10, network tools, shows ports 22, 80, 631, and
> 33829 as open.  do i need to open port 25, and if so, what
> tool do i use to do it?  i fiddled with ufw without success.
>
> any help appreciated.
> dan
>
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